1996 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Crozes-Hermitage Vieilles Vignes

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  12/22/2019 - Kiranonwine Likes this wine:

  Great suprise to find how alive and vibrant this one still is at 23 years of age nose shrooms, strawbery jam, blackberry compote, whiff of barnyard great balance and length. Excellent.

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  10/17/2015 - Milos wrote: 90 Points

  Dark fresh fruit and touch of barnyard; the wine just not giving any hint of its age. The palate confirms the black cherry fruit with good acidity; little short on the middle palate. Tannins are ripe and in balance with the fruit.

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  12/2/2012 - northerner Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Definitely a food wine. Great with roast beef. Fruitiness is beginning to fade, acidity coming through. Complexity evident. Should drink up within the next year or two.

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  5/7/2011 - vinc2020 wrote: 89 Points

  Last of a 3-bottle set got in promotion few years back. Very fresh, with strong minearlity, acidity and little flesh (almost like an old bordeaux or burgundy rather than a rhone valley wine).
  Still elegant and drinkable / No blockbuster but fine and elegant. A good QPR.

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  5/30/2010 - winetennis wrote: 89 Points

  Purchased in the Charles De Galle airport in June 2009. This is the Jaboulet 'Vielles Vignes Millenium Bottling' Crozes Hermitage, does not specify the Thalabert vineyard. Ruby red, tints of orange hiding behind a blue screen. Aroma was subdued on cork removal, some brett. I both decanted and left some wine in the bottle for air access; no real difference after about 2 hours. The tannins from the Syrah have softened considerably, and with the age have fostered an interesting raisin, prune, fig expression, mostly overpowering the pepper notes. After time the aroma opens up, exhibits its earth, leather, and more prune action. The mid-palate and finish is weak, however this is somewhat compensated for by an OK attack. Drink now. This is NOT the Jaboulet Crozes Hermitage (2000 Famille), as has been suggested elsewhere.

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